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Day 5 (of 2025/26) #mathmonday – highlighting the “Good Parts Edition” of senior math – History of Math 11 via Recreational Mathematics  I have a complicated history with mathematics… pun acknowledged based on the title.  I have loved math and hated it. Done very well with some part and realized the name was appropriate when…

Day 4 (of 2025/26) 3 news items education related:  @msn share on 5 things schools should be teaching… but… also a look at a cell phone ban in eastern canada… and Tylenol = ASD?!? To provide a counterpoint… here is where I think schools should focus on: Hmm – can we blend both individualizing education…

Day 3 (of 2025/26) welcome to #tEChursdAI ~ an introduction and shoutout to @kylalee for “AI Pioneers Meet Old Rules” Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOMp855ko8u/?igsh=MWM5Nmt0NjZjbWV4ZQ== It started as T(ec)hursday to blend tech on Thursday classroom time. Integrating tech into much of what we did on that day of the week… then the # had to start up, and…

Day 2 (of 2025/26) Alberta book ban vs Margaret Atwood Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJ-f0JEvXh/?igsh=MXF2Zmhic2NmNTRnZQ== I love dystopian fiction (Atwood’s Oryx & Cracke is one of my all time favourites) but I really loved Atwood’s retort to the recent Albertan school library book ban… along with other similar books that feel more like ‘hiding the blueprint to authoritarianism’…

Day one-ish (of 2025/26) @ShaneSafir Pedagogies of Voice with @ejeducation (Saswan Jaber) @_crystalmwatson and @marlobagsik Can’t wait to see some of the pushback as Safir continues to unravel a personalized approach to data and education that really hits at the bedrock of the system that works for most… many?… some…? But really wasn’t ever meant…

Day one-ish  (of 2025/26) — the days of learning blog continues… year 13 I appreciate West Vancouver superintendent @chrkennedy (cultureofyes.ca) pointing out a few years back that this daily blog was a bit of an ‘iron man’ streak… as a baseball rn, I was always in awe of the longevity of Orioles Cal Ripken Jr…

Zero Hour (of 2025/26) schoolpunk future education/society thinking inspired by @willrich45 Will Richardson  Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOFZ3shkTUs/?igsh=cG96NGhwYmNnOG00 I admit that I am looking forward to the future. While I hear many other Gen Xers (and +/-) complain about ‘youths today’ the same as our parents did… and was originally written down by Socrates a couple thousand years…

Day -1 (of 2025/26) influencers to know for education! Welcome to this New Media sampler package! Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOElM6zkmkc/?igsh=MXA1ZGc5ZjR6Y2xxcw== My son once complained ‘if schools are supposed to prepare us for the future… why isn’t there a class about youtube?’ How to use it as a resource… how to monetize on it as a career (as…

Day -2 (of SOL 2025) Pre-Thinking about Goals & Rules… https://apple.news/Aew3SeXGlQ9GIo2EiggAI_g My bias goes to @theweirdteachers mantra: Be Cool. Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN6p1htkrTV/?igsh=OW14bmF2aGRhdThv It also reminds me that rules for others also mean we gotta think about the rules for ourselves… and I got a little inspired while thinking about my personal/professional growth plan while watching this…

Day -3 (of 2025/26) dress codes – I get it, but… “If moms can’t pay the barbershop, if their homes don’t have (running) water, (or) electricity to iron, if they haven’t given them shoes, put yourself in that position Minister (Trigueros), and dress like a civilian,” Magaña wrote on X. El Salvador is enforcing strict…